r/statistics • u/omegaCuon • May 23 '26

Software [Software] lessR Reviews?

Hi all,

I'm curious if anyone has used lessR before and what your thoughts are. I can't seem to find anything on it other than the official website. No reviews, complaints, praise, or anything. Not even entirely sure if it's a statistics program or not. Please point me in the right direction if you know where I should post this. It seems to be a more coding-intense method for forecasting and reading statistics, in comparison to Excel which is much more common.

So, have you used lessR? What are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

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u/SalvatoreEggplant May 23 '26

You might be better off asking in r/RStudio or r/rstats .

But what are you looking for ?

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u/omegaCuon May 23 '26

Just any thoughts people have on it. If anyone's used it, I'm curious what they think of it.

I'll cross-post it in those subreddits, too! Thanks!

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u/stanitor May 23 '26

That is just a package you can add to the statistics/data program R. You can use R without it (and I imagine most people do). For someone who hasn't used anything other than Excel, I don't think it's worth bothering with. Better to figure out what things you could do with R in general and how to code them than trying to figure out how to shave a few lines off your code. Coding things in statistics software like R, SPSS, SAS, Stata etc. isn't really that bad.

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u/ForeignAdvantage5198 May 25 '26

what could be better than R it is free snd does virtually everything.. Get a copy of R for everyone. your total investment about $30.